Author: East St. Louis. Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Classified Catalogue
Author: East St. Louis. Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Centennial History of Illinois: The frontier state, 1818-1848, by Theodore Calvin Pease
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Centennial History of Illinois ...
Author: Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Centennial History of Illinois: The frontier state, 1818-1848, by Theodore Calvin Pease
Author: Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Frontier State, 1818-1848
Author: Theodore Calvin Pease
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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State history at its best, the book still enlightens students of the early nineteenth century, not only about Illinois's experience during those dynamic years but about that of America as well. The Frontier State is the story of America's, as it is of Illinois's, coming of age.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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State history at its best, the book still enlightens students of the early nineteenth century, not only about Illinois's experience during those dynamic years but about that of America as well. The Frontier State is the story of America's, as it is of Illinois's, coming of age.
Occasional Publications (Illinois State Historical Society)
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Groundless
Author: Gregory Evans Dowd
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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The fascinating—and troubling—story of powerful rumors that circulated and influential legends that arose in early America. Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women’s scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers—hardly immune as a group to the disease—routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries. Drawing on specific case studies and tracing recurring rumors over many generations, Dowd explains the seductive power of unreliable stories in the eastern North American frontiers from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The rumors studied here—some alluring, some frightening—commanded attention and demanded action. They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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The fascinating—and troubling—story of powerful rumors that circulated and influential legends that arose in early America. Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women’s scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers—hardly immune as a group to the disease—routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries. Drawing on specific case studies and tracing recurring rumors over many generations, Dowd explains the seductive power of unreliable stories in the eastern North American frontiers from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The rumors studied here—some alluring, some frightening—commanded attention and demanded action. They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war.
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Author: Michigan State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Pages : 910
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